Real time cd-r discs

[Johnny nocash]

Hi everyone,
After further 'research' I've read that my newly aquired HHB 800 cd recorder will perform better & more importantly longer if I use 1x (real time) CD-R's rather than 52x etc.
Forgive my digital ignorance but all I can find are 1-16x. Is this basically the same thing?
Could anyone advise which ones would be suitable & good?
Cheers

[Aligauld]

Hi there,
Yes those will be absolutely fine as long as you set the burning speed to 1x then it will record in real time but I would make sure that the discs are of a decent quality.
As a general rule when burning any disc I've found that the slowest possible speed is better for any disc be it cd-r, dvd-r or even bd-r with the corollary that I've only ever done this on the PC.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,
Alistair

[Johnny nocash]

Thanks Alistair, I think the burning speed is set on the HHB, but I could be wrong.
Could you recommend any particular brand of disc? HHB produce their own but they're quite expensive.

[struth]

You should be able to control burn speed in menu. Disc speed marks are just max speeds

[Aligauld]

Hi there,

Looking at the manual for the recorder it seems you can use any CD-r I would recommend any disc that uses Taiyo Yuden as the dye layer as I have never had any issues with these for audio or data.
Again I have only ever used a PC burner so I could be wrong.

Cheers,
Alistair

[Johnny nocash]

Thanks again Alistair.
Yes I've read that the slower speed is better for any recording but it seems the HHB only records in real time so I don't know where the original info I got was coming from.

Yes it seems that Taiyo Yuden are the ones but have apparently ceased trading & have been taken over by JVC. Has the Quality transferred over? Another, probably dumb, question ... Why are there 74 & 80 minute discs? It seems a ridiculously small difference

[struth]

6 mins ;) thats about it really. it saves overburns as a lot of cds are conveniently just over 74 to cause probs. Some software wont read an 80(older stuff usually)

[Johnny nocash]

Cheers Grant, I suppose it was a kinda dumb question:doh: